About Us

Jeremy Kauffman

Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people.

Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime BitTorrent community enthusiast.

Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science.

Michael Zargham

Michael has spent years managing, designing, and overseeing a data science team and framework used to make multi-million dollar purchasing decisions for a large media company. He brings knowledge of the media distribution business, software development expertise, business development experience, technical skill and a network of corporate contacts.

Michael’s ability to rapidly adapt new skill sets makes him a technical and business pocketknife of our startup team. He has a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on distributed systems.

Kevin Brophy

Kevin possesses the rare ability to understand complex topics and convey them with simplicity and clarity. He has experience in private equity, venture capital, commercializing new technologies, startups, and corporate development.

Kevin manages LBRY's relationships with investors and partners, as well as driving company financial strategy and commercialization.

Jimmy Kiselak

Jimmy is the second member of team LBRY to graduate from Rensselaer with degrees in computer science and physics. After, he found himself mired in government bureaucracy, spending too much time to get too little done.

Ready to work on a project he believed in, Jimmy left a national security programming job to start LBRY. Jimmy created the LBRY protocol and the first LBRY application.

Jimmy is a Bitcoin fanatic and has been since its early days. He has long been interested in the benefits of decentralization.

Josh Finer

Josh's combination of an MBA, strong analytical skills, programming skills, advertising expertise, and a perceptive insight to financial markets lead him to frequently bear the only title that can summarize such diverse wizardry: problem solver.

Josh has founded innovative financial companies (later acquired), run millions of dollars in Adwords campaigns, and been an early actor in other crypto projects. Josh's contributions to LBRY will be as diverse as his background.

Mike Vine

With a humble BA in Philosophy from Tulane University, Mike has built a successful financial services marketing company, Centinel Consulting. Centinel has helped clients grow from close to nothing to hundreds of thousands of visitors. He manages email marketing lists and social media accounts of the same size.

Mike has been involved with the Bitcoin community since the early days. His friends have launched companies like Lamassu BTM, Coinapult, Shapeshift. Now, he's ready to change the world by harnessing blockchain technology. Mike heads up LBRY’s marketing efforts and serves as an ambassador for our platform to media, investors, and the public.

Alex Grin

One of Alex's job titles is Wizard, so named because he can seemingly understand and utilize new technologies faster than they can be created.

Alex has designed and managed scalable infrastructure solutions for SaaS firms and is leveraging that experience to ensure LBRY's infrastructure and architecture is scalable.

Alex attended RPI (receiving degrees in Computer Science and Psychology) and Stuyvesant High School.

Jack Robison

Jack's path to developer with LBRY is fairly typical: face sixty years in prison for innocent chemistry experiments; lose interest in chemistry; program insane electric guitars for Kiss; decide to revolutionize the internet.

Jack was one of the first people to discover LBRY and took to it so fast he may understand more about it than anyone.

Jack has Asperger's Syndrome and is actively involved in the autism community. He was a regular on Wrong Planet's Autism Talk TV, has appeared on National Public Radio, the New York Times, and presents around the country.

Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in intellectual property reform, the effectiveness of markets, and the justice system.

Tabarrok is the coauthor, with Mercatus colleague Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University. He is the coauthor of Modern Principles of Economics, and author of the recent book Launching the Innovation Renaissance. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and many other prestigious publications.

Tabarrok received his PhD in economics from George Mason University.

Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and has over twenty years’ experience in patent, intellectual property, and general commercial and corporate law. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. Kinsella has published numerous articles and books on intellectual property law and legal topics including International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide and Against Intellectual Property .

He received an LL.M. in international business law from King’s College London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Lousiana State University, as well as BSEE and MSEE degrees. His websites are stephankinsella.com and kinsellalaw.com